A very close call....
More Turbo
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From: Weirton WV
Oops
What an a$$ in the black suv! I had the same thing happen this weekend on I95 north just before the I-26 split in South Carolina. Nice save.
Last edited by bent-1; Aug 17, 2021 at 07:00 PM. Reason: Question answered earlier
5th Wheeling
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From: Tacoma & Westport WA
This isn't anything I'd do if I realized I was about to miss an exit but I can kind of understand someone making a last minute change like this to get to the exit. Stupid but I understand it. What I don't get is why he put the brakes on or slowed way down. Maybe as mentioned earlier in the thread someone looking for an insurance payout from getting hit from behind. Is it possible this is a road rage thing that might of happened earlier down the road? Scary no matter what.
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Laughing Gas
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From: Austin, Texas
This isn't anything I'd do if I realized I was about to miss an exit but I can kind of understand someone making a last minute change like this to get to the exit. Stupid but I understand it. What I don't get is why he put the brakes on or slowed way down. Maybe as mentioned earlier in the thread someone looking for an insurance payout from getting hit from behind. Is it possible this is a road rage thing that might of happened earlier down the road? Scary no matter what.
5th Wheeling
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From: Tacoma & Westport WA
Ahhhh looking at the video closer maybe he's slamming brakes because he almost whacked the guard rail. Looks like he came close. Idiot regardless.
Mountain Pass
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Looks like temporary plates on that Nissan. Could be a new driver who was confused took the exit then maybe second guessed...really bad decision to hit the brakes after making that long cutover. I wonder if they even know the OP was there and almost splattered him/her.
Nice piece of driving by the OP! Thank God no one was killed or even injured...
Nice piece of driving by the OP! Thank God no one was killed or even injured...
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More Turbo
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EXACTLY THIS. I've been watching a bunch of Dashcam videos on YouTube LOL and it has really made me think I need to get one. They aren't that expensive either. My only thing is trying to rig it up out of the way without having wires all over the place.
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I've been through that interchange many times. It kind of creeps up on you. While the exit to I-70 East is two lane, the I-70 West exit is only one lane. If I'm towing I tend to stay in the right lane so I don't **** of everyone else on the speedway. But getting over to that left lane to go west on I-70 can be challenging because everyone going east wants to be in the left lane also. The east exit funnels down to one lane, with the right lane ending.
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Laughing Gas
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From: Austin, Texas
So I picked a unit that had a hardwire kit with a very long cable. So the hardware cable runs from the dashcam up to the headliner and I just poked it in behind the headliner all the way over to the A pillar on the passenger side. Then I ran it behind the A pillar (poked it in behind the trim) to the to the side trim to the floor bay trim. Then I ran ran a power wire from the upfitter wires behind the driver side battery over to the pass through wires on on the passenger side via the engine bay. The pass through wires gets me connectivity into the cabin. I then wired up the hardwire kit to passthrough wires and bingo - I got power and all the cables are hidden.